Getty copy lacks the 8th line of the title ("Imparione alla insegna del martello") as given in Bonacini, where it is reported to be lacking also in the Metropolitan Museum copy. In Getty copy the title leaf is followed by an extra unnumbered leaf, a variant of the "Regola prima" given on numbered leaf 1. A 2nd extra unnumbered leaf appears after leaf 44; it is a specimen salutation addressed to Francesco Joppa. Leaf 45 is bound in after the first of the two unnumbered leaves devoted to roman letters

Binding: 20th-century yellow paper, sprinkled green. Half vellum. Author, title & date written on spine

The order in which Curione's four writing books were published does not corresond to their numbering. Del modo di scrivere le cancellaresche corsive ("libro primo") appeared in 1590, Il teatro delle cancellaresche corsive ("libro terzo") in 1593, Il cancelliere ("libro quarto") in 1582. See Bonacini

Engraved throughout by Martin van Buyten. Forty-five numbered plates present chancery hand, including "lettera corsiva" variant, and "Lettre que escriuent les dames de France" (plate 43). Two unnumbered plates at the end with roman letters

Bonacini, C. Arti scrittorie

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